History of Sex in Cinema:The Greatest and Most Influential
Sexual Films and Scenes(Illustrated)

1984

The History of Sex in Cinema

Movie Title/Year and Film/Scene Description

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Angel (1984)

Writer-director Robert Vincent
O'Neill's film was a wildly-successful New World Pictures' production
raking in $23 million - the first in a series of trashy sexploitation
films. It was followed by lesser films:

This infamous film was one of the most
popular teen prostitute tales ever made, although it was very tame.
It teased with the tagline:

"High School Honor Student by Day, Hollywood Hooker by Night --
Her two worlds are about to collide. It's her choice. Her chance.
Her life."

It starred 25 year old Donna Wilkes in the title role
as an innocent-faced, flat-chested, pig-tailed teen prep school student
named Molly Stewart/Angel who was abandoned by her parents and masqueraded
as a Hollywood, Lolita-like prostitute and vigilante (against a necrophilic,
raw-egg sucking serial killer (John Diehl) dressed like a Hare Krishna).
Angel was protected by well-meaning, off-beat street
eccentrics, including paternal transvestite hooker Mae (Dick
Shawn), her foul-mouthed bull dyke landlady Solly Mosler (Susan Tyrell),
and B-movie actor-turned-street-roaming cowboy Kit Carson (Rory Calhoun).

Angel (1984)

Shower Scenes

Victim Lana (Graem McGavin)

For a film of this kind, it was unusual that there
were basically no sex scenes or nudity from the main star. There
were only two basic instances of nudity - a gratuitous
girls' locker room and shower scene, and a few quick glimpses of
nude female slasher victim Lana (Graem McGavin) who asked her potential
killer: "What are you waiting for, honey? Why don't you take
your clothes off?" - before her body was discovered by Angel,
bloodied in the shower.

Angel
(Donna Wilkes)

L'Annee des Meduses (1984, Fr.) (aka Year of the
Jellyfish)

This pretty-to-look-at exploitation film
from France, based on writer/director Christopher Frank's own book, masqueraded
as an art-house film.

In the same year, its
sexy star Kaprisky also appeared in the artsy La Femme Publique
(1984, Fr.) (aka The Public Woman) - see below. It featured the
tagline:

"Summer,
the south of France...She's 18, less than perfect, and dangerous."

The main character of the erotic thriller was pretty femme
fatale nymphet
Chris (Valerie Kaprisky), a sexually-fixated, vixenish female who was
symbolically compared to a stinging jellyfish with a fatal sting.
She actually sustained a jellyfish sting on her left breast, which
she showed off, when she rescued a young swimmer.

A menage
a trois competition, an exhibitionist sexual rivalry of mother-daughter
toplessness, was fought on the gorgeous beaches of the South
of France at Saint-Tropez between:

This British coming-of-age film, an adaptation of Julian Mitchell's play, told about an unexplicit relationship between two schoolboys in a 1930s British boarding school:

Guy Burgess (Rupert Everett in a star-making
role), openly-gay

James Harcourt (Cary Elwes)

In one scene, the two young males gently cuddled in
the moonlight - one of the earliest representations of homosexual
romantic love.

Bachelor Party (1984)

This above-average, irreverent, trashy-vulgar
mid-80s teen sex screwball comedy was about typical bachelor party shenanigans.
Twenty-four years later there followed a sequel - with more nudity: Bachelor
Party 2: The Last Temptation (2008).

The original comedy starred
young actor Tom Hanks as school bus-driver Rick Gassko. He ultimately
decided to marry his long-time debutante girlfriend Debbie Thompson
(Tawny Kitaen), although his party-animal reputation was disturbing
to the prospective wealthy in-laws. During Rick's debauched bachelor
party (he had vowed to remain faithful to Debbie), Tracey (buxom
pinup Monique Gabrielle) appeared in a bedroom to test him. Tracey
dropped out of her dress, walked over and sat down at the foot of
a bed where the struggling Rick contemplated whether to have sex
with her or not.

She seduced him with the words: "Rick. Take me, please!" He
then imagined heads of different people superimposed on her body
that offered advice. Debbie: "Rick. You promised me. You promised
me you wouldn't make love to anybody else." Nun: "Don't go back on
your word, Rick. Be true. Be strong." Brother: "What,
are you nuts? Look at my tits! They're perfect!"

This unfunny and distasteful
sex comedy was produced and directed by Stanley Donen (of Singin'
In The Rain fame!). It was a remake of Claude Berri's French
sex comedy Un Moment D'égarement (1977, Fr.) (aka One Wild
Moment) with Jean-Pierre Marielle, and was a younger version of
Blake Edwards' 10 (1979).

The film followed an awkward May-December romantic entanglement
that occurred during a Rio beach vacation between:

A reluctant "Uncle
Matthew" was repeatedly seduced and eventually succumbed to the
oversexed, intrepid, frequently nude, and under-aged Jennifer (who
in one scene rushed into a nude pose to take
a Polaroid picture of herself - and placed a small bouquet of flowers
over her private parts just in time). In another
scene, after a topless nighttime beach romp, he was left staring up
at her bare breasts. She also boldly propositioned him, requesting:
"Make love to me." Matthew responded: "I'm 20 years older than you."
Without a beat, she replied: "Twenty-eight."

It opened with struggling, claustrophobic B-film
actor Jake Scully (Craig Wasson) discovering his live-in girlfriend
Carol (Barbara Crampton) cheating on him. The film's
centerpiece was a later scene in a swanky LA bachelor pad in which Jake
was house-sitting for fellow thespian 'Sam Bouchard' (Gregg Henry) in
Beverly Hills. Jake was set up to voyeuristically watch (through a high-powered
telescope) the beautiful, rich, dark-haired neighbor Gloria Revelle (Deborah
Shelton)
performing a self-pleasuring, seductive dance in her apartment across the
way.

The film's twists were that Holly Body (Melanie Griffith),
a porn queen 'body double', had been hired to impersonate Gloria by
wearing a dark-haired wig and dancing in the apartment. Soon afterwards
came the infamous set-up murder (a very grisly scene) by Gloria's husband
Alexander Revelle (Gregg Henry), using an erect power drill, and disguised
as a disfigured Native American.

That night as he rested on his revolving bed and drank
Jack Daniels straight from the bottle, Jake watched late-night adult
cable TV, listening to an interview with a porn star named Linda
Shaw (Herself) of Linda Shaw Enterprises (known for such X-rated
flicks as "The Mating Game," "One Night at a Time" and "Bold Obsession").
He also watched a short promotional clip of bleached-blonde
adult film porn queen Holly Body in an X-rated
porn shoot titled Holly Does Hollywood ("The Gone With
the Wind of Adult Films" according to Eros Magazine; Erotic
X Film Guide called it "A Hedonist's Heaven"). Her
familiar-looking, self-pleasuring dance in the porno film caused
Jake to wonder whether Holly might provide a link to Gloria's murder.
He immediately rented the video from the "Adult Section" of a local
24 hour video rental store, and watched Holly's full-length performance.

Shortly thereafter, Jake entered the business of
hardcore X-rated films, in order to meet Holly. He participated
as a nerdy-looking supporting actor in a short music-video scene with
her. It was an X-rated 'film within a film' - shot to
the tune of "Relax" by British pop band Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
During the filming of the actual raw sex scene with her, after Jake had
spotted her in a room labeled "Sluts," he spoke his short amount of dialogue
to her: "I like to watch." He became so involved in the scene (he also
fantasy-imagined being in the arms of Gloria for a moment, as the camera
spun around 360 degrees) when making love to her that the 'money shot'
was not visible to the startled cameraman who asked:

When Jake expressed a desire to hire Holly
to be in his own porn film ("I want you in my picture"), she asserted
upfront, to prevent misunderstandings later on:

"I do not do animal
acts. I do not do S & M or any variations of that particular bent.
No water sports either. I will not shave my pussy, no fist f--king,
and absolutely no coming in my face. I get $2,000 a day and I do
not work without a contract."

When he asked about a routine of "a
woman alone, getting herself off, it's got to be really hot," she
claimed that self-pleasuring was her specialty: "I have a routine
that is a sure-ten on the peter meter." Jake was tipped off that
the "show" ("masturbation routine") that Gloria
had put on in the house nearby had been performed by Holly ("That
was you in the Revelle house"). He was able to have Gloria confirm
that "Sam's"
voice during a phone conversation was the same as the man who had
hired her to perform for two nights. She helped
Jake to unravel the conspiracy underlying the murder - learning that
it was more than "a little practical joke" but a case of
murder instead.

In the conclusion, it was revealed at a reservoir
site that Sam had been disguised as the killer-Indian (with latex
face-makeup). He admitted angrily to Jake: "You ruined my
surprise ending" - and ended up getting pushed backward to his
death in the churning reservoir water below.

The End Credits Sequence

The film's final credits rolled over a Psycho-like
scene shot in a shower featuring how an actual body double (named Mindy)
for a naked shot was substituted into the film for the lead actress.
She told Jake (opposite her as a vampire) to be careful: "My breasts
are very tender. I've got my period." After fondling her, Jake bit
into her neck, causing a cascade of blood down her naked chest. [It
was DePalma's answer to his critics for using a 'body double' for
Angie Dickinson in the opening of Dressed
to Kill (1980).]

After Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981), this was
the third film featuring blonde-haired, blue-eyed Bo Derek that was
directed by her Svengali husband John. It
was a tale of sexual awakening that was released unrated, due to
its rampant and lengthy sexual content and nudity. From its nine
Golden Raspberry (Razzie) nominations, it won six awards (including
Worst Actress, Worst Picture, and Worst Director). The film was also
nominated as one of the Worst Pictures of the Decade. However, it
was taglined with:

"An adventure in eXtasy" and "The Hottest Erotic Film of the Century."

Bo Derek played the role of "overeducated" Lida
MacGillivery (aka "Mac"), a Rudolph Valentino fan in the
1920s, who early on confessed to her Spanish girlfriend Catalina
(aka "Cat") Terry (Ana Obregon): "But in the ways
of love, we're kindergarten toddlers" - and expressed how she
soon desired to "wallow" in "eXtasy" on the hot
sands of Morocco, after having obtained her inheritance as a "rich
bitch." When she graduated from her strict all-girls English
boarding school, she stripped down topless to her underwear and streaked
about in the garden, amazing her chauffeur/guardian Cotton (George
Kennedy) about how much she had "grown well" since childhood.

In N. Africa, she forwardly introduced herself to
a "real sheik" (Greg
Bensen), boldly offering: "I have come all this way to give
you something you may not even want. My virginity...Will you take
the gift?" The next day, after arriving at the Arab sheik's
ocean-side sand-dune encampment by aeroplane, "Mac" received
a lesson in sensual belly-dancing before being undressed in his tent.
Old-style title cards described: "And now...the gift is without
a wrapper."

The sheik asked for "milk and honey" -
in the infamous scene, he dripped honey onto her naked breasts and
body and began licking the sweet substance. Upset after her lover
fell asleep (from hookah-smoking) and she was covered in thick honey,
she complained: "I'm all dressed up with no place to go!"

Bo Derek as "Mac" in Bolero (1984)

The
next stop for "Cat" and "Mac" was Spain, where "Mac" flirted
with dark-eyed, sexy bullfighter Angel Sacristan (Andrea Occhipinti),
but had to compete with his young almost 14 year-old "gypsy
child" Paloma (under-aged 15 year-old Olivia d'Abo) and with
the fighter's naked and jealous outdoor hot-tub, red-headed girlfriend
Natty (Corinne Russell). Paloma bragged about her ripe feminine shape
as she was rinsed off by "Mac" after her sudsy bath: "I
am woman ready. Juicy, too."

Soon, "Mac" gave herself
to the matador at sunrise, as she predicted ("Fruit's about
to fall from the tree"), although she first had to give him
a lengthy and wet tongue kiss in his ear! Before a roaring fire,
she then asked before offering her maidenhood:

"Right now, will
you show me everything? Do everything to me? Show me everything I
can do to you? Am I too greedy?...Is there enough that I can give
to you? So that you can give ecstasy to me?"

After being painfully
penetrated during intercourse, she told him: "I'm not a virgin
anymore." Shortly later, she received the gift of a honey-colored
horse and the acquisition of his wine business. But their love and
the possibility of marriage was tested when he was gored in the genitals
by a bull, although she was certain he wouldn't be permanently impotent: "That
thing is going to work. I guarantee you this."

Meanwhile, Cat
lost her virginity to Scottish solicitor Robert Stewart (Ian Cochrane),
assuring him: "This is unbelievable. I love it. And the hurt
- I love the hurt." To arouse the impaled Angel, "Mac" took
a nude and bareback horseback ride, but was disappointed in his reaction
("You're a hard man to seduce"). Before attempting love-making,
she urged: "You say that we never found ecstasy. That it was
like quicksilver, always promising next time. Angel, I want ecstasy.
Let's find it." He cried out: "Make me whole again" and
she accepted his challenge to be seduced ("I guaranteed it").
She assured him after he said that he loved her: "Well, my dreams
take me beyond infinity. What love you must have for me. I guaranteed
it." Soon after, she was straddled atop him,
applauding his firmness ("Bravo!") and they fulfilled making
love in a smoke-filled Heaven, in front of a neon sign reading: Extasy.
She exclaimed: "Look! 'X.' I was right." They were soon
married in a church ceremony, as the film abruptly ended.

"Mac"
(Bo Derek)Paloma
(Olivia d'Abo)Natty
(Corinne Russell)Bo Derek

The Bounty (1984)

Roger Donaldson's adventure yarn was a fairly faithful
remake of the oft-told tale of the ill-fated HMS Bounty, which
had been told twice earlier:

British director Ken Russell's
erotic thriller was a neon-lit, dark, "guilty pleasure" cult
tale. The unrated-uncensored video version contained
non-theatrical (semi-pornographic) extras and deleted scenes - including
a dominatrix S & M scene in
which a policeman (Randall Brady) was handcuffed to a bed by the
hooker and then aggressively sodomized with his
own nightstick during intercourse, as he bled from his restrained wrists
and from her spiked stiletto heels.

She plied her fleshy wares in a grungy downtown area filled
with XXX adult stores, bars, live nude and peep shows. She wore a platinum
wig and light blue silky dress and frequented the Paradise Isle Hotel
for tricks. Her entrance in the film was with male
client Carl (John G. Scanlon) who insisted that she role-play for
him a beauty pageant contestant named Miss Liberty 1984 - and then euphemistically
blow his "instrument" - she tantalized him with her sex-talk
while unzipping his pants:

"I'm very gentle. And then I run my little hand
all over it. Up and down, and up and down. And then I-I fondle it
so softly, so softly. Hmm, I love the look of it. Oh, I love the
feel of it, so smooth and firm. Oh, I love to wrap my fingers around
it and tenderly caress it. Well, I like to lift it to my mouth and
wrap my lips around it. And then I just wait for that sweet, sweet
music to come pouring out."

Often while having sex, she would imagine Japanese
erotic art prints or other exaggerated drawings of enlarged male
genitals. Her next client had a sexual fetish of pretending to stalk
and attack her, before "raping" her in her room.

Hooker China Blue (Kathleen Turner)

China Blue was also repeatedly accosted and stalked
by a deranged, perversely psychotic, amyl nitrate-sniffing, self-proclaimed
preacher named Reverend Peter Shayne (Anthony Perkins) calling himself
a "messenger of God" - who carried a chrome-steel vibrating dildo - one of his sex toys in his doctor's bag (China Blue asked prophetically: "What are you gonna do? F--k someone to death? You'd like to, wouldn't you?"). He
believed he was China Blue's savior ("Save your soul, whore!"). The preacher told her: "I'm bringing you something greater than a hard-on" -
while she explained how her profession completely fulfilled her clients'
fantasies:

"This is a fantasy business, Reverend. You can
have any truth you want....Why don't you f--k me? That'll save me...I'm
healthy as a horse. I'm fit as a fiddle and ready for cock...I'm
Cinderella, Cleopatra, Goldie Hawn, Eva Braun, I'm Little Miss Muffin,
I'm Pocahontas, I'm whoever you want me to be, Reverend."

When investigating whether China Blue was selling patented
design secrets, home electronics store owner and security expert
Bobby Grady (John Laughlin) escaped from his own 12-year dull marriage
to Amy (Annie Potts), who faked orgasms, into an obsessive, erotic
relationship with China Blue. During their first intense sexual encounter
(for $50) that she fantasy role-played as a flight attendant ("We're here to serve you. Please remember that although we may run out of Pan Am coffee, we'll never run out of T-W-A-Tea"),
she sucked on his bare toe and then had sexual intercourse with him in multiple positions (viewed as silhouettes behind a gauzy curtain), while the reverend peeped on them from an adjoining room.

In
the startling conclusion, an assault in Joanna's apartment by the
reverend (claiming he was saving China Blue) resulted in his death
(his last words were: "Goodbye, China Blue") after he was
stabbed in the back by his own razor-tipped dildo/vibrator (dubbed "Superman")
in a role-reversal and costume twist. The film ended
with Grady attending a marital therapy group where he admitted he was
in a new relationship with Joanna:

"I was scared s--tless to come
back here. I told Joanna, and she took me in her arms and she said, 'It's
OK to be scared.' I felt stronger and freer and more like a man than
I've ever felt before in my life. Then we f--ked our brains out."

French sex starlet Valerie Kaprisky starred in this
artsy and stylish French "film-within-a-film," inspired
by Dostoevsky's novel The Devils, and directed by Andrzej
Zulawski. The very dark and enigmatic film of
exploitation included plentiful scenes of complete nudity and
heated sex, as the main character struggled for self-discovery - to
break free from her victimization and eventually score a victory over
various dominating mentors.

The non-linear plot was about the life of:

Ethel (Valerie Kaprisky), living in Paris
as a young struggling actress, taking jobs as a nude model

In the film's opening, she allowed a voyeuristic
photographer to shoot pictures of her, to make ends meet, as she performed
frantic, convulsive, and lewd interpretive dances. During the second
session while she went into a sweaty frenzy, the photographer fell
dead at her feet.

Ethel (Valerie Kaprisky) Dancing and Frantically On
Display For a Photographer

The aspiring, struggling
and inexperienced actress also auditioned for the lead role in a costume
period drama based on Dostoyevsky's The Possessed. Soon after,
abusive, pretentious and flashy filmmaker Lucas Kessling (Francis
Huster) seduced her on her apartment's stairs, and continued to sexually
dominate her.

She lost touch with reality while assuming the role,
as the director acted antagonistically toward her and victimized her
- angrily deriding her acting ability and for not revealing her emotions.
He forced her to strip naked for a sex scene in front of a number of
cast and crew - she wore sunglasses to shield herself.

A confusing yet intriguing sub-plot about the
political assassination of an Eastern European prelate, in which Ethel
was substituting as the replacement dead wife of coerced Czech immigrant
and film crew-member Milan Mliska (Lambert Wilson), was unsatisfactorially
realized.

Ethel
(Valerie Kaprisky)

Friday the 13th, The Final Chapter (1984)

The Friday the 13th films
provided the premise that sex was punishable, and that one surviving
Last Girl (virginal) would remain alive until the end, because she
was most like the killer and had remained childlike.

To live up to
its reputation as a film series with randy, horny teens and copious
amounts of sex and nudity (that required murderous retribution),
the fourth film in the franchise, Friday the 13th, The Final Chapter
(1984), featured two skinny-dipping scenes - one in broad daylight,
and one at night.

At Crystal Point next to the lake, a large group of
teens decided to go swimming, but without a suit, Samantha (Judie
Aronson) stripped down and joyfully dove in. Two fraternal twins
that the group had just met, Tina and Terri (Camilla and Carey
More), jumped in with identical bikinis, but then removed their bathing
attire underwater, and alternatingly bobbed up and down in the water
to display themselves to the other males on shore, to entice them
to also "come on in." Pretty soon, everyone was naked (there
were some glimpses of bare-assed males too), except for embarrassed Sara
(Barbara Howard) who lounged on the dock and refused to "strip and
dip." When Samantha asked the resistant Sara to join them, she tricked
her by pretending to be drowning, and then pulled her friend into the water,
revealing her topless self once again in a blur of motion.

Because Samantha seemed to be the most sexually-liberated
female in the group (she earlier described that she had developed
a reputation for herself in the 6th grade), she was the first of
the teens at the rented house to be murdered. In a second skinny-dipping
scene at night, a miffed Samantha stripped naked after cursing her
two-timing, unfaithful boyfriend Paul ("Screw you, Paulie"),
swam out to a yellow/blue rubber raft floating in the lake, and as she
was lying on her stomach in the bottom of the raft (after calling out: "Come
on, Paul, I know you're out there"), the hand of an unseen killer
held her left shoulder down as she was stabbed (from underneath the raft)
through her abdomen, with the bowie knife piercing out the center of her
back through her spine.

Paul received sexual justice shortly after -- he
was shot in the crotch with a spear-gun. Other deaths were directly
paired to sexual activity: in the medical center, crass morgue attendant
Axel (Bruce Mahler) made out with naughty Nurse Morgan (Lisa Freeman)
accompanied by an erotic aerobics video - he lost his life with a
bone hacksaw to his neck, while she was cut down the length of her
chest with a scalpel. A fat hippie hitchhiker (Bonnie Hellman) who
was eating (fellating) a banana was stabbed through the back of her
neck.

Sara had asked sex partner Doug
(Peter Barton) to sleep with her in the bottom bunk. In the bedroom,
she prepared for love-making by stripping to her bra and panties,
and donning a silky white robe as she primped in front of a mirror,
before surrendering her virginity to him in the shower - his face and skull were crushed,
while she was killed by an axe to the chest.

The only other significant instances of nudity in the
film occurred in a "film within-a film" - when a group of
the teens were watching a vintage black/white stag movie on a reel-projector
in the living room, and the images of nude females in the old film were
juxtaposed with various scenes of sex and violence in the real-world around
them.

The Vintage B/W Stage Movie Sequence

When one sole male named Ted (Lawrence Monoson) was
left watching the flick, he enticingly asked one of the nude screen
images: "So
you wanna give the ol' Teddy Bear a kiss?" (a masturbatory comment).
Immediately, he was phallically impaled through the screen itself.
The party that the teens held in the rented house was literally a "dead
f--k" party - a phrase used repeatedly in the film.

This was a brainless, soft-core
beach-bunny exploitation sex comedy, with the tagline:

"If
You Don't Know What They Are, You Don't Know What You're Missing."

It was originally a Playboy TV movie,
but was released as a feature film, directed by Mark Griffiths. It
was followed by an equally-inane sequel Hardbodies 2 (1986). The
film told
about three divorced, middle-aged horny guys ("hard-ups with hard-ons")
who rented a Venice Beach condo. They took lessons
from local blonde beach bum/stud Scotty Palmer (Grant Cramer) (with
girlfriend Kristi (Teal Roberts)) on how to score with young "hardbodies" and beach bunnies
by "dialoguing" and offering them a BBD ("bigger and
better deal").

Commentator Joe Bob Briggs counted 44 breasts in the
film, many of which appeared in the photo-scene when about a half-dozen
females partially stripped and competed with each other to show off
their breasts.

The Impromptu Nude Photo-Session with Hardbodies

(Tina Riccio)

(Karen Lybrand) - right front
(Julie Always) - left back

(Jackie Easton) - left

Hardbody
(Leslee Bremmer)

Another memorable scene was the one of Kimberly (Cindy
Silver) and Kristi topless in front of a mirror discussing the appeal
of their breasts:

Kimberly: "Why do guys like boobs?"
Kristi: "Why do guys like boobs? I don't know why guys like
boobs? But they sure go crazy trying to get at 'em though, don't
they?"
Kimberly: "Yeah, but they don't do anything, they just lie
there."
Kristi: "I know why they like 'em. 'Cause they don't have
'em."

This PG-rated dramatic comedy was from the screenwriting
(husband-and-wife) team of Charles Shyer and Nancy Myers.

It told
about precocious, 9 year-old Casey Brodsky (Drew Barrymore) who was
suing for divorce from her Hollywood career-driven, self-absorbed
industry parents: script-writer Lucy Van Patten Brodsky (Shelley
Long) and writer/director Albert Brodsky (Ryan O'Neal). Each character
told their story, viewed through flashbacks, from the courtroom.

One of the most ironic breast-baring scenes occurred in
this film. Lustful and prideful film director Albert wanted starlet
and aspiring actress Blake Chandler (aka Amanda) (26 year-old Sharon
Stone in her earliest major film role) to do a nude scene for the
Brodsky's second film. The producer David Kessler (Sam Wanamaker)
objected, remarking that the topless scene would give their PG-rated
film an R rating.

Suddenly, Blake briefly lowered her top
for director to reveal her breasts, and Albert assented: "Works
for me." [The breast exposure was the basic reason for the PG-rating!]
Amanda, aka Blake Chandler, was also a conniving
homewrecker and the Hollywood Hills house-maid for the Brodskys.

[Note: The film was basically
a fictionalized tale regarding the marriage and divorce of film-maker
Peter Bogdanovich to his wife Polly Platt. The Blake Chandler character
was loosely based on muse Cybill Shepherd. Albert's musical flop Atlanta (Gone
With the Wind turned into a musical, with Blake as Scarlett O'Hara) was
a thinly-veiled spoof of Bogdanovich's flop At Long Last Love (1975),
the film he made for and with Shepherd.]

She was
encouraged to pursue him after reading about the 'double life' of
her mother's extra-marital affair in some poetic and emotional 'love
letters' that she had found.

Anna
(Jamie Lee Curtis)

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984, UK)

Director Michael Radford's grim adaptation of George
Orwell's classic dystopian novel 1984 expressed how Big Brother had invaded
the idyllic love affair, beginning in the countryside, between two
who then continued to conduct an illicit tryst (often in full-frontal
nude scenes):

Winston
Smith (John Hurt)

Julia (Suzanna Hamilton), sensual
and free-spirited

Julia (Suzanna Hamilton) and Winston Condemned for
Falling in Love in the Countryside

After they made love and were discovered
(betrayed) having an illicit sexual liaison in a rented room above
a pawn shop, both were detained, questioned, tortured and brainwashed.

Winston suffered an excruciating torture/brain-washing
by O'Brien (Richard Burton in his final film role) in Room 101 -
repudiating his former love for Julia and professing only a love
for an image of Big Brother by film's end.

Julia
(Suzanna Hamilton)

Purple Rain (1984)

Director Albert Magnoli's loosely-autobiographical
and wildly-popular concert film and musical drama was made at the height
of singer Prince's popularity. It starred the sexy pop icon Prince,
partially playing himself.

The
film's plot concerned the jealous rivalry that developed between:

The Kid (Prince), the leader of Minneapolis pop rock
band The Revolution

sexy, aspiring singer/girlfriend Apollonia (Apollonia
Kotero), who joined an all-girl group called Apollonia
6, backed by house band leader Morris Day (as Himself)

The film was noted for the scene of Apollonia riding
on a motorcycle into the countryside with the Kid, and then being persuaded
to dip and "purify" herself in the freezing cold waters of
Lake Minnetonka. She stripped off her black biker jacket, and jumped
in. The Kid shockingly rode off, only to return,
and finally let her get on the bike and give him a kiss on the cheek.
With double entendre, he commented that she must be 'wet' from the lake:

"Don't
get the seat wet."

In a sexually-explicit
scene in his parents' basement, the Kid caressed and stroked Apollonia
from behind, while she was wearing only tiny red-thong underwear. They
also made love, in a brief scene, in a hayloft.

During the nasty
and salacious song "Darling
Nikki", the bare-chested Kid - bathed in reddish light - sexually
taunted Apollonia in the audience and basically implied that she was
a nymphomaniac (a "sex-fiend" who liked to "grind").
As he performed, the high-heeled Kid gyrated and flopped around atop
the amplifier-speaker. At the film's conclusion,
he sang "I Would
Die 4 U" while using the neck of his guitar to make masturbatory
gestures.

Apollonia
(Apollonia Kotero)Apollonia and The Kid

Savage Streets (1984)

This classic 80s crime-action exploitation
film, directed by Danny Steinmann, was about the theme of vigilante
justice. The story was told with filthy lines
of sexual banter, such as: "Gonna play 'hide the sausage.' I'm
gonna hide that sausage so far up you that Christopher Columbus couldn't
find it." "You stuck up c--t! I wouldn't f--k him if he had
the last dick on Earth."

25 year-old Linda Blair made a
trashy appearance in one of the main roles, after starring in the TV
movie Born
Innocent (1974), Hell Night (1981) and the woman-in-prison
film Chained
Heat (1983). It was made, in apparent homage, to Charles Bronson's Death
Wish (1974) and I Spit On Your Grave (1978), and also
ran afoul of the MPAA censors. Blair won the Worst
Actress Razzie award for her role.

There were two street-smart gangs from the 'savage streets'
- fierce and ruthless high-school gang rivals:

The Satins, headed by Brenda (Linda Blair), a gang
of senior-year HS girls

The Scars, headed by drug-pushing greaser Jake (John
Dryer)

In the school gym, while the Satins and others were in
the showers (displaying gratuitous full-frontal female nudity in an
obligatory shower scene) after an aerobics class, blonde cheerleader
Cindy Clark (Rebecca Perle) engaged in a cat-fight against Brenda.
Although Brenda and Cindy were not naked, there were other bare girls
watching and scuffling in the background. [Later, a second catfight
took place in a classroom, when Brenda completely tore off Cindy's
top and thoroughly embarrassed her.]

Obligatory Shower Room Sequence

Gratuitous Nudity

Locker Shower Room - First Catfight: Cindy (Rebecca
Perle) vs. Brenda

Meanwhile, the Scars were dragging Brenda's deaf (and
mute) sister Heather (pre-scream queen Linnea Quigley) into the boy's
locker room bathroom in a very nasty rape sequence. They attacked her,
ripped off her clothes, drew circles around her nipples, and then one-by-one
raped her. The penetration during her rape was emphasized by Brenda's
wide-mouthed scream - and a cut to a loud telephone ringing in the
school's office. The gang left her totally naked and unconscious on
the tile floor after they fled.

Veteran actor John Vernon (Blair's Chained
Heat co-star) as high school Principal Underwood in a small
cameo role, told the Scars punks: "Go f--k an iceberg." Soon
after, the group also chased after and murdered Brenda's best friend
Francine (Lisa Freeman) who was thrown from a bridge onto concrete
below. Tough-chick
Brenda, who had been suspended from school, took a long hot bath (revealing
her large chest) as she languidly smoked a cigarette and contemplated
what to do next, as the camera slowly panned toward her until it reached
a closeup of her face, to the tune of John Farnham's "Justice for
One."

She decided to seek revenge and hunt down the criminal
gang members with supplies from the army surplus store: bear traps,
a cross-bow, and flammable liquids. In the concluding
vengeance scene, after a thug named Fargo told Brenda: "First,
I'm gonna f--k you. Then, I'm gonna slice you into little pieces," she
replied:

"Sounds nice and kinky to me. Too bad you're not
double jointed... because if you were, you'd be able to bend over and
could kiss your ass goodbye."

The New Zealand/Australia production by director Michael
Anderson was actually an unfunny comedy. It
was advertised as "A Devilishly Funny and Sexy
Comedy" and
the story of how "two teenagers go back in time."

Cute, curly-haired
and petite star Diane Franklin displayed ample nudity - she was equally
nude in the teen drama The Last American Virgin
(1982) and later appeared as the French student love interest
of John Cusack in Better Off Dead (1985).

The sexy comedy began with a "double-or-nothing" bet
between white-garbed God (Robert Morley) and a fiery, drag-queen-like
Devil (Robert Helpmann). They decided to replay the Adam and Eve story
in the Garden of Eden - to see whether Eve (and Adam) would take a
bite from the apple (re-enacting man's fall from grace through seduction
a second time). The Devil wagered that temptation would still plague
mankind. The first two people also had modern-day human counterparts:

Adam Smith (Roger Wilson), geeky

Evelyn (Diane Franklin), bespectacled

They were taken from a wild party
held at Adam's house (with a few topless female students dancing and
playing cards!) back to innocence in the garden, where Adam was warned
by angel Gabriel (Jon Gadsby), disguised as a motorcycle cop who had
busted up the party, about the temptation of sexual feelings (symbolically,
his immediate erection) after first glimpsing the beautiful Eve bathing
fully naked in a waterfall. After meeting her, he goofily talked about her breasts
as they ate watermelon together:

"We're kinda different...Well, like here, I've got nothing but two little lumps. You got two big lumps and then you got two little ones on the ends."

She naively responded: "Perhaps they're meant to make me float when I swim."

Diane Franklin as Evelyn/Eve

They went swimming and ate bananas - when she looked
down and noted his penis: "You got a banana too" - and he added: "Two
berries besides," while she complained: "Not fair, I have nothing." Later
as they laid down together for the night, he held onto her right breast,
calling it convenient to hold onto, as she observed: "All your banana
and berries seem to do is get in the way."

The next morning at the
Tree of Knowledge, the Devil (earlier disguised in the form of a Muppet-like
snake) succeeded in having Eve take a bite from one of the forbidden "delicious" apples
to then reveal "all the secrets of life," and she sought to convince
Adam to follow her lead. He saw that she was "different" as she
seductively held the apple out for him. He thought: "It must be because
of the apple" -- but she claimed "nothing happened." He
looked at her breasts: "Your lumps seem bigger. Your eyes are different.
What's happened?" She assured him: "Don't worry, look. I'll show
you" as she took a bite, let her hand slip down his chest to his aroused
genitals (Gabriel called it a "danger signal"), and offered the
apple to eat.

Afterwards, the disobedient couple were banished, as
their love story proceeded through history as various personages representing
Eve and Adam (in scenes set in Ancient Rome, in Europe during the Great
War, in 1920s US - an era with flappers, gumshoe police lieutenants and
gangsters, and in the 1980s with Adam as a rock star in a band named
Damn Mad and Eve as a Louise Brooks-like supporter) - they continued
to be tempted with having sex and exhibiting their true love for each
other - and eventually "won." After
abundant nudity in the garden scenes, Eve exhibited one breast to Roman
military officer 'Adam' as a seductive Roman lady, and as a nurse defiantly
bared both breasts before a WWI firing squad to provide the gunners with
her bare heart as a target.

When the two returned to the present in the
aftermath of the party and kissed, Adam's bedroom door magically opened.
Even though Adam thought he had known her for centuries, Eve was mystified
(Eve: "How could you have? I've only known you for five minutes" Adam: "Funny,
seems more like ages"). Adam placed a red apple (with two bite marks
on it) outside his door when the two entered to finally consummate their
love, as the credits rolled.

Eve
(Diane Franklin)

Sheena (1984)

Ex-Charlie's Angels TV
star (in its final season in the mid-70s) Tanya Roberts starred in The
Beastmaster (1982) (with another nude bathing sequence) and then
in this poorly-acted action adventure film by director John Guillermin. The
'turkey' of a film, shot on location in Kenya, was designed to capitalize
on Roberts' recent fame and sexuality, and claimed in its tagline:

She Alone Has the Power to Save Paradise

She portrayed the title
character, loin-clothed Sheena, Queen of the Jungle (like a female
Tarzan), based on the famous late 30s comic strip, who showered in
a waterfall and bathed in a lake.

Tanya Roberts as Sheena, Queen of the Jungle

Most
of her subsequent films, except for an appearance in the James Bond
film A
View to a Kill (1985) (marking
Roger Moore's last appearance), were direct-to-video and cable releases.

Sheena
(Tanya Roberts)

The Terminator (1984)

The Terminator (1984) was
an early, low-budget James Cameron-directed action film. It
told about a bleak future run by cyborgs and endo-skeletal robots.

In the midst of its terrific action sequences, there
was a touching love scene in the Tiki Motel (with background piano
music) in the year 1984 between:

strong female character
Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton)

time traveling protector Kyle Reese
(Michael Biehn)

Kyle had journeyed back from the future year of 2029
to save and love Sarah. He had volunteered with future resistance
leader John Connor (who was fighting against the robots in the year
2029) to go back in time to protect her. She felt that she was a
trembling, scared disappointment for him, and then asked: "The
women in your time, what are they like?" He answered: "Good
fighters." She steered the question differently:
"That's not what I meant. Was there someone special?...A girl,
you know." He succinctly replied: "Never."

He said he only possessed her torn and faded picture
given to him by John:

"John Connor gave me a picture of you once.
I didn't know why at the time. It was very old, torn, faded. You
were young like you are now. You seemed just a little sad. I used
to always wonder what you were thinking at that moment. I memorized
every line, every curve. I came across time for you, Sarah. I love
you. I always have."

Although he realized he had been forward and possibly
foolish ("I shouldn't have said that"), she kissed him,
and they made passionate love together -- their conceived child would
become humanity's future savior, John Connor. During their love-making, the
camera cut to a metaphoric visual closeup of their two hands locked
together, gripping and squeezing each other and then releasing.

'Good girl next door' Raiders
of the Lost Ark (1981) lead
actress Karen Allen shed her inhibitions as a lonely American tour
guide named Mo Alexander.

Nude Mo Alexander (Karen Allen)

She was stranded in Paris for three weeks,
during which time she engaged in an affair to married and suave French
international banker Xavier de la Perouse (Thierry Lhermitte). While she
was bathing, he confessed her love for her, and she jumped up into
his arms. During one of their many love-making sessions, she thought she
had small breasts, but he complimented her on their "beautiful proportions."
She told him: "My husband liked big breasts."